[Lerc]

The possibility of an internet resource disappearing exists regardless of the resource type. Running an API Forwarder that could act as a common target for all your APIs might work. Give it the request, and it passes it on, records success, optionally sends a notification if an endpoint that previously succeeded is now failing.

Add a fancy feature of redirection with format changing to handle replacing dead APIs with new ones transparently.

If anybody makes one of these, they should totally make it a free public API. I'd use it, and I'm not certain if that would just be ironically.

[dotancohen]

  > Running an API Forwarder that could act as a common target for all your APIs might work.

That just sounds like adding another point of failure into the chain.

[Gasp0de]

I'd say it only makes sense if you control the forwarder.

[deanishe]

But it's one that you can fix.

[shakna]

Maybe we can convince IANA to host a simple API, on example.com as well.